The tree might long for peace, but the wind never ceased!
After returning home, Wang Chen thought it over and over, yet he did not think that middle-aged steward had been trying to fool him.
After Dongwu Stockade's master, Xin Han, took Hu Meiniang of the Joyous Union Sect as a concubine, he specially established the Guard Hall for her younger brother, Golden Snake Gentleman Jin Liancheng, and appointed him Guard Hall Master, placing the City Lord's Mansion's armed forces in his hands.
Xin Han doted on Hu Meiniang even more. It was said that for an entire month, he had ignored all affairs and devoted himself wholeheartedly to dual cultivation with her.
When Xin Han entered seclusion some time ago, the great authority of the stockade had fallen entirely into the hands of Hu Meiniang and Jin Liancheng, the sister and brother pair.
Under such circumstances, it was simply impossible for the old hands in the City Lord's Mansion who followed Xin Han to submit meekly!
Wang Chen suspected that the open and covert struggle between the two sides was precisely the root cause of Dongwu Stockade's current chaos.
Now that Hu Meiniang and her brother were conscripting cultivators to build a separate residence, it sounded as though he would be on the list as well.
This left Wang Chen quite irritated.
He had quietly cultivated by himself and had never deliberately provoked anyone. Why did trouble always fall upon his head?
Even lying low was difficult!
Should he solve the problem at its root?
Killing intent immediately rose in Wang Chen's heart.
Destroying them in the name of humanity was undoubtedly one of the best ways to eliminate trouble.
But after thinking it over carefully, he decided to suppress, for the time being, the urge to kill Hu